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arxiv: 2511.14854 · v3 · submitted 2025-11-18 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc· hep-ph

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The Penrose Transform and the Kerr-Schild double copy

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keywords kerr-schilddoublesolutionscopiesequationsprescriptionsself-dualtwistorial
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There are a number of classical double copies, each providing a prescription for generating solutions to the Maxwell and scalar wave equations from exact solutions of Einstein's equations. Two such prescriptions are the Kerr-Schild and twistorial double copies. We argue that for a broad class of self-dual vacuum solutions of the Kerr-Schild form, which we refer to as twistorial Kerr-Schild spacetimes, these two prescriptions are in fact equivalent. The approach is elementary, utilizing null Lorentz transformations, with homogenous functions on twistor space playing a central role. The equivalence is illustrated explicitly for the example of the self-dual (Kerr)-Taub-NUT spacetime. A detailed proof and several more examples will be presented in a long-form companion to this letter.

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